First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy....
2014 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This works received much attention as a work of first importance not only for philosophers and physicists but for the general reader...
Written in response to the devastation of World War I, "Why Men Fight" lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. Russell argues that when individuals live passionately, they will have...
Bertrand Russell was a prolific writer, revolutionizing philosophy and doing extensive work in the study of logic. This, his first book on mathematics, was originally published in 1897 and later rejected by the author himself because it was unable to supp...
Justice in War-time, first published in 1916, is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays on war. He claims that humans have an instinct toward war, but that this instinct needs to be sufficiently roused in order to spark conflict. He analyzes British...
An unabridged, unaltered printing of the Second Edition (1920), with original format, all footnotes and index: The Series of Natural Numbers - Definition of Number - Finitude and Mathematical Induction - The Definition of Order - Kinds of Relations - Simi...
In The Conquest of Happiness , first published by Liveright in 1930, iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell attempted to diagnose the myriad causes of unhappiness in modern life and chart a path out of the seemingly inescapable malaise so prevalent...
Bertrand Russell, (1872 - 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. Russellâs books are excellent for those who have no experience of reading philosophy. This volume contains many of his most...
The author is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a brilliant writer and commentator on social and political affairs. What I Believe offers a lucid and concise insight into the authors thinking on issues that...
This book provides the original text of A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, which was first published in 1900. An example of Russell's early thought, the work took particular inspiration from the letters to Arnauld and the Discours...
"I think all the great religions of the world - Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Communism - both untrue and harmful. It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they disagree, not more than one of them can be true."Bertrand Russell...
Hailed as âlucid and magisterialâ by The Observer , this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy.
Originally published in 1897, this book was based on the dissertation Russell presented for the Fellowship Examination of Trinity College, Cambridge, together with a series of lectures given in the USA around the same time. It provides an account of geome...
In this harsh and unsparing book, Bertrand Russell presents the . unvarnished truth about the war in Vietnam. He argues that "To . understand the war, we must understand America"-and, in doing so, we . must understand that racism in the United...
Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort âto prevent the catastrophe which would result from a large scale H-bomb warâ. Bertrand Russellâ...
Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest philosophers and most complex and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Here, in this frank, humorous and decidedly charming autobiography, Russell offers readers the story of his life - introducing...